Appearance:- Quite the tall guy, but rather frail with large shoulders and 'stick-like' limbs. Has brown hair arranged into a messy ponytail. His appearance otherwise fluctuate between completely uncared and handsome, depending on mood and occasions. Has a thing for coats of all kind, as they fit naturally well and improve his charisma. When not wearing a greatcoat (mostly when it’s burning hot outside) he tend to wear tightly fitting jacket and combat boots, or just a typical professor outfit, with bowtie to boot. Most of his attire is black and white, and he seems to care little for fashion or wearing clothing appropriate to the current temperature. Also has some 'Lennon-style' sunglasses (worn by a celebrity from the Earth he hails from) and mad scientist goggles.

Background:- He talks about himself a lot, and it doesn’t take long to understand that his life was easy, with no calamity and tragedy happening to him in the past. Sure, sad events have occurred, but nothing that could cause a trauma or the like.- Always dreamed of conquest when he was young, and went past the dream stage a couple of time, even massing an army and taking control of the primary school yard once, before quitting dictatorship and entering high school.- Instead of playing with kids or going to the pool, he would read encyclopaedia, think, and daydream. He still managed to get a lot of friends of similar interest and never had problem with bullies for being a total nerd/geek/oddball.

Personality:- He’s social, friendly, full of humor, and all those nice shiny qualities, but only half of the time, otherwise he is reserved and solitary. If that balance gets forced on one side or another, he become irritable, and loses all energy.- He used to be quite an oddball, not caring much about others perception of him. Some called him mad, but he once believed that if madness is wakefulness in a world of sleepers, then madness is the only reasonable behavior. However, it was all young and foolish delusion; he sees his former self as quite immature nowadays. Even if he still tries to be himself, he is far more considerate about the opinions of others, even if he doesn’t agree with those or live them out. He has no problems humoring others' expectations and desires if to do so would be painless, since he has no real ego or arrogance.- Of course, this wasn't always the case. When he was still a teenager, he claimed to have a more intriguing outlook on life. He believed his philosophical way was better; people who didn't accept the darker and crueler aspects of life as the true face of reality (and see that the aspects of 'happiness' and 'causality' were foolish at best) were looked at as nothing more than sleeping ignoramuses. - JP is a bit older now, and he has understood that he broke no veil of reality at all. He still is a strong advocate of scientific and philosophical aptitudes, and such a thing is innate for him, but he doesn’t think of himself as inherently superior or better than anyone. Some people are simply ignorant, but JO believes that no one is ignorant by choice; that would require them voluntarily refusing to learn, in which case they wouldn't be ignorant but idiotic. No, if someone doesn't know something, then someone doesn't know something. In other words, JP no longer thinks of himself as an 'Awakened Being' amidst a sea of failures. He simply seeds himself as a wise guy who luckily got interested in the right things. JP does try to spread some of his wisdom around when possible, but he does without stomping on others to prove his philosophical might like a 19 years old him would have done.- JP is still a bit of a megalomaniac, and still loves being acknowledged for his awesomeness, but he no longer feels the need to burn others retinas to prove a point. - Even if he still tends to see the nature of life as harsh, he now believes there’s plenty of good things to look for, and the parts make up a whole much more interesting than their sums, and that makes deconstructing everything a lame way to look at the world.- JP also still thinks of life as a big game, but now as a multiplayer one. Justice, greater good, and all those thing are parts of that 'game's mechanics. Happiness is the end goal, but this such happiness would be more about satisfaction and deep fulfilment, not just on the spot enjoyment.- JP used to despise NPC's, or non-playable characters, which is the term he uses to qualify all species of 'fools' and 'sheep', that is, those who dismiss philosophy as trivial; they don’t even understand the goal of the game. But nowadays, not anymore. JP today doesn't despise NPC's, but he simply feels like it would have been great if they were more interested in evolving and asking themselves the true questions that matter. Living without a good philosophy/understanding of the universe is like being colorblind or deaf: it lessens the quality of an existence, and it could make avoiding some mistake (tragically) impossible. However, JP knows that such people might not know what they’re missing out on, and explaining is not always possible, so he stays very kind and very forgiving of such ignorance at all times.- Even if he believes existence to be purposeless, he also knows that inexistence is also purposeless, and therefore, he enjoys the ride while it lasts. - JP is no longer nihilist, at all. Who cares if the world works in a mundane way? The end product contains awesome, and he believes that people should struggle a bit to make more of that and reduce the negative things in life.

Grim Artist Class: Savant; much more powerful than a Dilettante. Can exhibit highly advanced Grim Techniques and has refined the basic and intermediate ones to the point where they can be used for more complex and potent moves, some of them experimental. Is outclassed by a Virtuoso Class Grim Artist and definitely no match for a Genius Class Grim Artist.- He is a Low-Rank Savant, meaning that he has just graduated into the Savant Class.

Grim Aesthetic/s:- Drawings, Combat and Gaming are his primary fields. - However, he has dabbled in a lot of others, and sometimes knows a lot about Aesthetics that he doesn’t directly practice. When it comes to serious competition however, he won’t trust his Cooking skills, but will probably return to his best attributes. - When it comes to Gaming, as much as he can design and create basic video games, he’s much more potent when it comes to creating rules and designs for tabletop gaming, like Role-Playing Games and War Games, and he use that peculiar knowledge as his primary strength, using Drawing to consolidate and Illustrate his game designs and make the rules clearer and deadlier. - His Combat Aesthetics are centered on the uses of Swords, mainly the two-handed ones, and he uses his comprehension of gaming rules to exploit weakness in the 'gaming system' that is reality into getting extra attack when it’s not his turn or moving faster than normally allowed. In the meagerly-designed universes out of the Renaissance, he has been known to effortlessly, conceptually and literally get infinite amounts of actions into a single Cosmic Planck Time, being able to manually break the neck of virtually every god and demon before any of their 'quantum' particles have had the time to even move the tiniest distance conceivable; note that a Cosmic Planck Time to a Higher Entity is not the same as a Planck Time to Regular Entities. That being said, doing that within the Renaissance would screw him big time, the rules turning against him and nothing pertinent being accomplished.

Grim Device/s:- The Gamemaster: JP's personal computer, bought partially for him by his family. Tower style complete with multiple screens, tablet and all. Big and clumsy, this equipment is his strongest tool, where he writes all his gaming rules and does all his digital drawings. The raw power of this Grim Device his impressive, and the 'official' versions of his rules that stem from it are his most potent and dangerous ones. However, it is mainly stationary and not well adapted to transport, and therefore, will rarely see the battlefield directly. However, versions of his rules are stored online, and he can access them from any computer or well-made cell phone and apply corrections or correct anomalies. However, doing so require much more energy than working directly from the Gamemaster, and therefore he tries to have his work need as little modifications as possible, to avoid changing rules on the fly too much. He also posts his Drawings so that he can access them from anywhere, signing them for added Prerogatives and protections. If those drawings fit his rules, then their existence become much more rigid, as they becomes the incarnations of premade statistics, and they also cost much less. However, they are in the end controlled by the obscured Judging Ones, and must act according to the rules JP as set for them.- The Judging Ones: Rare are the tabletops games that doesn’t need dice, and JP's set of dice are the ultimate 'judges' to the results of his actions. No matter where or how he throw the dices, they give a result, and that result is interpreted by his Gaming Rules and then the dices reappear instantly in his pouch.

As an Artist:- Deep within, Jean-Philippe feels that he is nothing but a megalomaniac trying to play 'God' by recreating universes that work according to his own principles, his own aesthetic tastes, his own rules. He seems himself more a demiurge more than an Artist.

As a Grim Artist:- JP fights by first encompassing the whole playing field and flow of combat into his rules, and then defeating his opponent by them. The more 'fair' and random the rule, the less costly they are. Abusive or outright ludicrous rulings cost a lot more, so he uses this kind of unfairness only in situations that call for it. Imprisoning his opponent in a turn-by-turn reality, or having him/her/it stunned and losing his/her/its action, or incapable of using skill from lack of 'mana' is all within his capability. - However, the true caveat is that, having played his own game a lot, JP 'Character Level' his usually much greater than the challenger, turning him from a fair match in close combat into a unstoppable juggernaut with an enormous amount of magic items providing bonuses of all kind, from life-steal to attack speed and armor, that is, if the Prerogative of his opponent doesn’t simply allow his opponent to minimize the effect or simply break the rules altogether and bring the castle of cards down. If not, when fighting JP within his gaming realm, opponents could swear that they are fighting a High-Rank Savant instead of someone one Class lower.- When not in combat, he loves using a version of rules that are extremely well-balanced, just to play around with friends, which require little expense and isn’t dangerous for the participant, who loses only their Characters' health from fighting, and are not truly harmed during or after in the process.

Art Costs:- Jean-Philippe doesn’t believe in destiny. He doesn’t care about fate. For him, there is only causality at work. However, sometimes anomalies he calls 'deterministic ironies' happen, times when events kind of conspire to bring him down, often in a way so ironic that it looks like it’s nothing but a big joke, and a cruel one at that. Using his Art tends to produces these phenomenon, and when in combat there’s only so much you can do when the whole concept of interaction between causes and effect seem to be clamoring for your downfall in the most merciless and malicious ways. It’s like fighting against odds that always on the opponent's favor, always having to climb increasing difficulties as the fight goes on, and if he stops squirming and giving it all he can, he quickly get consumed by the invincible wall of impossibility. Examples of these glitches in his fortune would be his Prerogative inexplicably failing him at a critical moment, his Creativity leaking, his Device breaking, or his opponent gaining unbearable amount of advantages. - That his, of course, only when he uses too much power. Normal uses only have minor payback, like having some of his Techniques appearing within someone else’s mind before he can make it happen, and losing chucks of Prerogatives associated with it. - To the mundane or inexperienced, this may appear as simple bad luck.

Favored Moves: There exists a lot of documentation on JP’s moves, for he publishes his system for free. However, he most probably keeps secret other versions of it that he never used publicly, and those must contain his most abusive Techniques.

Gaming-Drawing Aesthetics Collaboration, The Dungeon of The Awakened: JP summons the map of a lair and traps his opponent within it. Safely outside of the prison, Jean-Philippe then unleashes waves after waves of monsters, traps and enigma. However, The Dungeon must always include an exit or an objective that is clearly stated, and the more difficult it is to achieve, the most costly this Technique will be. If the objective is attained, an extremely heavy price proportional to the difficulty is then applied to JP’s causality.- Being created from the Gamemaster, The Dungeon's Prerogative his much higher than what one might expect for JP's power level, though not nearly enough to capture a Virtuoso for more than a minute or so before being cleared, and then again, the difficulty needed against a Virtuoso would be so high that it would drain JP way too much, and with lasting effects to boot.- If he modifies his dungeon on the fly, for example by altering the spawning point of monsters, or their number, it costs him much more than if he had it prepared from the start.- For revenge against a brat who tough himself mighty, he once designed a labyrinth so deep and complex and deadly that he had to cheat his own ruling to avoid the poor lad from staining the catacomb floors. The price was high, but it was all worth it, so he says. - Many Dungeon-Crawler Gamers find that collaborating with a Construction Artist makes their Dungeons much more impossible to break out of, leaving them time and energy to concentrate on making sure the objectives are harder.

Gaming-Combat-Prerogative Aesthetics Collaboration, Le Gros-Bill: French term for Power-Playing in Gaming. A Rare and dangerous Technique. By backing his own Combat prowess with stats, JP gives himself extra powers and stats when within his own rules, and the more abusive the bonuses, the more costly the Technique is.- Several Aesthetics have their own variants and versions of taboo God-modding Techniques. The Mary Sue Mode and Gary Stu Gear can be unleashed by Writers and Sketchers, for example.- This Technique of JP's is rarer than usual, since it is hinges upon more rules than most others.- Josh and JP are both learning the counter to this Technique.

Gaming Aesthetics, Fumble and Critical: An Uncommon Technique. By throwing dices, and interpreting the result, he assures a probability of doing 'critical hit' and 'fumble', or critical failure, to him and his opponent. Naturally, he keeps the odds of making a Critical Hit higher for him by tweaking the rules and giving himself specials boons and effect. Drastic alterations of probabilities quickly can turn a fair fight into something aberrant, but the price for that is high, and the chance of his opponent making a Critical, or giving himself a fumble, is never truly nullified. - Normally, Gamers are content to invoke a Critical or Fumble effect separately, but JP is comfortable with pulling both off at the same time.

Gaming Aesthetics, Personnage Joueur: French for Playing Character; this Technique also goes by many other names like Character Mode and Gaming Avatar. This common Technique can be pulled off with Drawing or Theater Aesthetics as well. JP can choose to play one of his pre-made Characters, using said Character's own set of abilities while losing the possibility to alter the rules in real time, but becoming protected for the duration of his manifestation. He can go 'Out-of-Character' at will, and the Character will stand still until further control. While In-Character, references to him have no effect, since he doesn’t really exist anymore. A Writing technique dictating his horrible death will stay ineffective while in-game, but effects targeting the character will take place. If the character dies, JP gets ejected instantly, but suffers no direct harm, except a cost and the fact that the resurrection of the Character will probably take some energy afterward. - Other variants of this Technique can function on the First Person or Third Person modes. - Many other variants, sometimes including Theater Aesthetics, will cause the Gamer to use a Character like armor, wearing it from the inside, or merging with it. They will take damage if their Character does, but they are able to more effectively infuse their Prerogative into their forms, or channel other Techniques not usable by their Character.

Trivia:- Listening to music works better for his frustrations. He sometimes conduct imaginary orchestras while listening to music, but the screaming part is definitely gone. That, and working out a little, helps getting to get his power and inspiration flowing.- Now that he no longer sees anyone as sheep, he adds concepts, values, metaphors and ideas simply to make his dungeons and games create a deeper playing experience,.- When out of inspiration, he will sometime venture out of the Renaissance to fix a universe or two, and experiment on ideas and monsters concepts. Being a good guy, he sometime reverses the damage done if the change brings total doomsday.- JP doesn’t trust his dice, which are always plagued by bad luck, and he curses a lot while rolling them if the result is unpleasant. Of course, he knows that he has no luck, and so he never curses without a playful tone to it.; this could change in a life or death scenario, however.

I am happy with how it looks now, it is much more actual and accurate.

I promise I won't change anymore, or I'll fake my own death and change name atleast to spare you the work! ^^

I never was very fixed in my identity, and I don't see myself the same way from a minute to the next, but this should hold up quite well, or atleast won't be an embarassing teenager version of me still laying around being ungratefull and full of himself! XD

I have no idea what the universe he comes from is, although it sounds REALLY interesting. I love this guy though, and I must admit, although I'm no philosopher (well, I don't think I am), his description sounds like me to a T, minus the ability to create his own game rules. I might be able to do such a thing, but not without stealing other rules and such from other games and/or taking forever to come up with a complete set of rules. Unless I have help of course. Then that could change things a bit. XD I myself have always had an interest in games, mainly video games, and although I don't make them, I do play them or watch people play them plenty, and I find myself wondering if I'd be able to beat this guy in a game if I knew how to play it thoroughly. XD Anyway, mind explaining to me exactly what he is an OC for so I can look it up?

Well now, I haven't had a response of interest with that kind of magnitude from a stranger for a long time. I shall tackle your comment in bits and pieces.

"I have no idea what the universe he comes from is, although it sounds REALLY interesting."~ Thank you. This Profile takes place within my Grim Renaissance Franchise, and it's a little complex to explain right off the bat, so you'll have to keep an eye out for the actual 'Intro'. What I can state, being as brief as possible, is that the Grim Renaissance is a place where 'Art', 'Artist' and 'Artwork' are beyond the ordinary. The Basic Overview of the Grim Aesthetics may be found here: [link]

"I love this guy though, and I must admit, although I'm no philosopher (well, I don't think I am), his description sounds like me to a T, minus the ability to create his own game rules.""XD Anyway, mind explaining to me exactly what he is an OC for so I can look it up?"~ Well, I guess that's something you and have in common, then. That's because JP is basically , formerly as a Grim Artist within my Grim Renaissance Franchise. I've made a Profile of myself, which just so happens to be the first of the initial 10 in the G-R Rosters, with 10 more on the way. The link is in my sig.

"I might be able to do such a thing, but not without stealing other rules and such from other games and/or taking forever to come up with a complete set of rules. Unless I have help of course. Then that could change things a bit. XD I myself have always had an interest in games, mainly video games, and although I don't make them, I do play them or watch people play them plenty, and I find myself wondering if I'd be able to beat this guy in a game if I knew how to play it thoroughly."~ Every Artist has their own way with things, including games. It delights me to see variety in everyone.

The Glance At The Renaissance link is outdated, though. I'll be dedicating a different deviation for that.

This is my D&D Character in a nutshell. Although he is very good at fighting, in fact one of the best of the best, he almost got killed.

Since then he has created a high tech mountain sanctuary fortress and lived inside of it since. He now provides his adventuring teammates with computer support as their technical analyst.

His dutys are:Monitoring their progress.Searching for items and entities with his x ray satellite grids that can map underground areas.Helping them get out of sticky situations.And finally do some hacking on his own time.

The computers in the picture represent his method of helping out and working plus his new hobby of hacking. The green lines forming a laser grid represent his paranoia and the fact that he surrounds himself with high tech security and defense systems just to feel safe.

JP is more of a caster-assault hybrid than he is support. His attacks are usually made in conjunction with special effects and within a zone he has control of. He may choose to gamble by imprisoning a foe in a dungeon, and those can get difficult to beat, but if they do beat it, the penalty for JP is significant. Or he can fight enemies directly, but under the enhancement of several Gaming Rules, some of which could spell disaster for him AND his opponent, like a double-edged sword.

Oh, indeed! There are a lot of fights that would be extremely interesting when it comes to the current Rosters, and if I look hard enough, there might even be Rock-Paper-Scissors scenarios where one Grim Artist can do really well against someone, and lose badly to someone else, and that someone might lose to the person who the first person mentioned could beat without too much trouble.

But sparring among ourselves will have to be training sessions as well. There is a Roster I will be uploading soon: two enemies of our little group, and I guarantee that none of us will be able to stand against either one of them by ourselves...

Half of the members there are Grim Artists, back when I was more hesitant to reveal them. But reveal them I did. Not the details, but if you spotted the bodiless clothes up at the top-right corner, you'll get what I mean.

New info? But of course! No worries! And no, I don't mind if it you want to alter any of your details; I'm just here to have them fit better. This Profile IS, after all, partially owned by you. Really, the only thing I manage here is the 'Setting', i.e. the Techniques, Guilds who may have made things for Artists, Types of Grim Devices, Artist Classifications, etc.

Ugh, you can tell me that again. One would think dual screens are enough, but no. Once I have youtube, work space, graph editor, photoshop, video referrences, email, notes, etc, both monitors at school become a monster.

Thank you for your support, good sir. I am relieved that I did not disappoint!